History on Tap: Free History of Beer Program

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Join us on Tuesday, April 8 for a Women’s History Month presentation by Dr Steven Sewell who will speak about “The History of Beer: From its Sumerian origins to today’s microbreweries”. History on Tap is a free program for the community held at North Shepherd Brewing, at 6:30 p.m., 4816 N. Shepherd Drive Houston, TX 77018.

Steven L. Sewell has been a Professor of History at the College of the Mainland in Texas City, Texas since 2000. He also previously served as Dean of Academic Programs and as Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at College of the Mainland. Dr. Sewell served as president of the Southwestern Historical Association, 2012-2013 and served as the President of the Southwestern Social Science Association, 2023-2024. Dr. Sewell earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in History from Oklahoma State University. He has published extensively on the history of labor in the Oklahoma coal mining industry, published an article on the Texas cowboy strike of 1883 in the Red River Historical Journal and an article on Choctaw beer in the Journal of Cultural Geography. He also published a book chapter entitled, “The Spatial Diffusion of Beer from its Sumerian Origins to Today” in The Geography of Beer (2014).